P.S., I turned 23

And thank you for the cards and gifts - thank yous are practically in the post. They just need a little more glitter.

Finally it's Finals Week [Two]

Hi friends and family.

Law school works like this. You spend two hours reading and taking notes per one hour of class, plus you go to all those classes and take notes and then later you try to mush the reading notes and the lecture notes into one thing that makes sense. We call this an outline. Outlining like this is a law school "thing." We've been harped on this. Outlining is, apparently, what law students have been doing as long as there have been law students. (Which, I happen to know, has only been about one hundred years; before that, there were legal apprentices who followed another lawyer around until they knew enough to pass the bar exam. Fun fact.)

So I've been reading and note taking and listening and note taking more for months, the end result of which being three outlines which are each roughly 60 pages long.

So I studied these outlines and I took two exams (essays, each taking about 3 hours and resulting in about 4,000 words, respectively) and I feel like all the words I've ever learned in my life have been written down and given to a professor to read. It's a strange feeling, especially for a person who spent her undergraduate career writing papers and taking essay exams. Nothing has ever demanded so much of me.

So grades be darned. I did all I could and we'll see what the professors think.

Well, actually, I'm not quite done doing all I can. There's one more test to take - my Contracts final, ironically, which I have been happily banishing from my thoughts since Thanksgiving, but which I must now face. Shoulders squared, chin up.

See you at Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving

I had the best Thanksgiving vacation. Here's why (in chronological order).

Amanda.
Aunt Patty's wonderful Thanksgiving lunch.
Hailey's horse affinity.
Poppy's recuperative abilities.
Mom's artistic abilities.
Mimi's hospitality.













Not pictured:

*my wonderful scarf and hat hanger, designed and manufactured by mom-Robin. Pictures pending; I want to install it first.

*Mimi being hospitable. I forgot to spring my camera on her.

*Thanksgiving lunch. I was WAY too busy eating as much as I could hold to think about pictures.